The year is 2110. In 2105, over a tenth of the world's population died when a number of space stations orbiting Earth went dead. The radiation that killed them had an unexpected side effect: The victims now haunt the halls, possessing machinery and threatening anyone that dares travel inside.

Maschine Zeit is a science fiction/horror RPG from Machine Age Productions. The game's mechanics focus on movie logic, encouraging dramatic behavior and offering players control over most of the narrative. The game emulates the conventions of such genre works as Alien, Pandorum, Event Horizon and Dead Space. The setting information is all presented in-character, in the form of blogs, newspapers and other pieces of biased text, leaving the truth to fill in at the table. The system uses a d100, and can be learned or taught in minutes, but offers strategic players a shockingly vicious resource gambling mechanism.

The game comes with a ZIP file, which includes an HTML version (HTML5 compliant,) for ease of use and rapid loading on your netbook, iPad or other device.

Maschine Zeit is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution/NonCommercial/ShareAlike Unported license. This means you own the product you've purchased. You can share it as you'd like, remix it and play with it however you'd like, so long as you're not making money off it.

It's doesn't happen often enough, finding a game that is designed to get out of the way and let the story happen. But Maschine Zeit is one of them. The game is designed to let each player set a goal and gives them each their moment in the spot light. [...]

I just finished reading Maschine Zeit a horror / scifi rpg by machine age produciton. I'll give a brief review of what I liked (a lot!) and what I didn't like (very little). Pros: First off, the writing and production quality are top notch. This [...]

Maschine Zeit is awesome, not only is it easy to read and comprehend for beginning gamers, it's also a fun system to toy around with as it was intended! I would recommend this to anyone who's a fan of survival horror, even to those who are looking for [...]

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